NonProliferation Lexicon for Weapons of Mass Destruction

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World peace is at an all-time critical juncture. Concurrently, the conditions for the complex nature of cultural misinterpretation have
increased. This became more evident post the Ukraine crises, the Paris
Terrorist attacks, the downing of a Russian SU-24 fighter jet by Turkey, the
Charlie Hebdo journalists’ assassinations, the alarming rise and the despicable
gruesome acts of the Islamic state ISIL, the unremitting mistrust between Iran
and the western nations, and the unmistakable threat of global warming. A
miscalculation leading to a nuclear trigger or the use of other Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD) is becoming worrisome and unavoidably irritating. Human
actions always brought miseries and calamities to mankind. But now, with hundreds of thermonuclear
weapons ready to go off, the stakes never been higher throughout planet Earth’s
history.

Russia, with its overwhelming power that can
vigorously rattle world peace at any time, has suffered great economic punches
in the past months due to the collapse of the world oil price. The Ruble lost
more than twice of its value against the US Dollar in the past two years. President
Putin believes the oil price drop is orchestrated by others to bring his nation
to compromise the Kremlin foreign policy objectives, He feels other oil producing nations, like
Saudi Arabia and Iran, can take the
punch and survive for many years at low oil prices but Russia can not. Now that
a NATO nation (Turkey) has attacked and downed one of his airplanes, Putin is
openly getting more aggressive with the largest deployment since WW2 of Russian
forces outside his country into Syria including the advanced SS 400 air defense
system.

A world conflict among superpowers that can be
caused by misguided actions, wrong spoken words, or injudicious conveyed
messages has become an unavoidable reality. The complexities and the abundance
of lexicons among nations seeking or possessing nuclear technologies and
weapons are obvious. For example, the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,
NPT, signed in 1968 currently has some 189 member nations. The NPT is left to
be culturally interpreted by almost 200 different unique alphabets lexicons. Translations
and interpretations are often insufficient to pair and connect minds where
cultural or scientific terms often offer differing meanings even in one culture
compounding the complexities within an envelope of some 200 cultures. Thus, the
problem multiplies when two or more languages are required to pair minds.
Diplomats, scientists, and world leaders often face challenges to bypass a
geopolitical barrier of national beliefs and ideologies to lay transparency on
the table for the sake of international peace and security.

What Washington DC thinks is not necessarily what
Russia, Pakistan, India, Korea, Israel or Iran Think. How critical such an
obstacle can be? A recent example to amplify the importance of this obstacle
took place among two super powers, the USA and Russia who believe they
understood each other. With all of the United States' resources to assure
understanding and avoid mistakes with other important nations such as Russia,
with whom the US had close working relationships and negotiations of treaties
for many decades, the US secretary of state and the
Russian foreign minister recently showed the world how easy it is to misinterpret the essence of a highly
visible and critical meeting. Both of these two individuals are highly skilled
and accomplished in foreign affairs and negotiation. Yet, they did not have
proper, accurate resources to represent their views, causing an embarrassment
for the whole world to see on live media coverage. The use of a wrong word
rendered a critical message ineffective and could have had far more disastrous
consequences had one of these diplomats not realized and corrected the
situation even in a humorous way.

A crisis, such as that similar to the Cuban
missile crisis, can happen anytime. World events are moving at a digital speed
and the players are not the US and Russia alone, but rather India and Pakistan,
the UK and China, Ukraine, or South and North Korea. How do we communicate to avoid
misunderstandings and false reactions that can lead to actionable triggers
threatening world peace? Countries cannot dismiss this potential by believing
they have sufficient countermeasures for this. History is a witness. Nations
have failed time and time again to avoid such an abyss. Can humanity afford
these mistakes? NPWMD strives to be a safe bridge to pair minds and enhance the
communication process. It helps assure zero tolerance against igniting an
unintended war with colossal consequences leading to the extinction of humanity.